In partnership with the Foyle Foundation
The Shakespeare Curriculum is an online platform developed by the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and powered by Charanga (our external technology partner), to provide an interactive learning tool that can be used daily in classrooms across the UK.
The platform enables participating schools to access a wide range of teaching resources including lesson plans, teacher packs, toolkits, and ideas and solutions for independent and blended learning, whilst managing their classroom and individual student assignments. And it allows pupils to create notes, complete homework assignments and upload content, including photographs, videos, and audio.
Please read these Terms and Conditions of Use carefully before accessing or using the Shakespeare Curriculum service (“Service”) provided through our website (“Website”).
The Website is operated by the Royal Shakespeare Company (“RSC”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”), who is the data controller.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is incorporated under Royal Charter and is a charity registered in England and Wales (Charity Number 212481).
RSC Enterprise Limited (CRN 2360172) is a private limited company that is a 100% owned subsidiary of The Royal Shakespeare Company that carries out a range of commercial trading activities to generate income for the RSC.
These Terms and Conditions of Use apply to all Participating Schools and Users who access or use the Service.
By using the Website, you agree to be legally bound by these Terms and Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy as they may be modified and posted on our Website from time to time. In these Terms and Conditions of Use, “you” refers to the entity you represent (“the Participating School”).
If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions of Use or Privacy Policy, you may not use the Service.
You may connect to the Service using an Internet browser. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Internet and any equipment necessary to use the Service.
Signup
The person signing up for an account will be automatically assigned as the ‘Lead Teacher’ (“Main User”, “You” or “Your”), the Participating School contact who has day to day responsibility for the Shakespeare Curriculum account. Additional teachers can be added after this initial Lead Teacher has completed the signup and their respective accounts can be created by the Lead Teacher. The Lead Teacher role can also be reassigned to another account within your school at a later date. Your account is only for use by either a single legal entity (e.g., a company or a partnership) or an individual user. You must provide your full name, school name, job title and, email address in order to complete the signup process.
Term
Use of your account shall commence after signup and shall continue until terminated by either party in accordance with the provisions of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
Relationship Between Participating School and Main User
You are responsible for ensuring that all personal data used in connection with the Service are accurate and current during the term of this agreement. As the Main User, you control the day-to-day administration of your school's Shakespeare Curriculum account. You can amend account details, add users, and cancel access to the Service. These actions may result in changes to the access, use, disclosure, modification, or deletion of certain or all Participating School Data.
You are not permitted to share your username and password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.
You are responsible for any and all activities that occur in your account. You will immediately notify us if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account, passwords, or any breach of security. Where your account has been mis-used, you are responsible for taking any remedial action to protect your account. The Participating School may request our help in providing audit activity to help ascertain any breaches. We shall act with reasonable care in providing audit assistance but shall have no liability for any loss or damage arising as a result of providing such audit assistance
If a person proven to be acting on behalf of the Participating School asks us to replace a Main User we will only make the change I) if there is only one Main User on the Account and, ii) if we are lawfully obliged to do so i.e., by court order, or if requested by the Participating School in circumstances where the Main User cannot make the change i.e., in the event of their death, on us being provided with acceptable evidence of the Main User’s inability to make the change.
Participating School Data
The Participating School owns all content and data you add to your account, and you retain sole ownership of all rights, title, and interest in, and to, your data.
Moderation of User data, both by teacher and student, is the sole responsibility of the Participating School. Neither the RSC nor Charanga are responsible for the moderation of User generated data or content.
You have the sole responsibility for the legality, reliability, integrity, accuracy, and quality of your data.
Suspension & Termination
**1.1 Suspension & Locking Access **
Only the Participating School can ask us to lock all access to your account for any reason.
We will provide the Main User with prior notice by email of our intention to suspend your Shakespeare Curriculum account.
**1.2 Termination & Cancellation **
We may terminate these Terms and Conditions of Use immediately by giving you written notice if you commit any breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use. We may terminate these Terms and Conditions of Use for any other reason upon giving you 30 days written notice.
Termination of these Terms and Conditions of Use for any reason shall not affect the accrued rights of the parties arising under these Terms and Conditions of Use and all rights which by their nature should survive the expiry or termination of these Terms and Conditions of Use shall remain in full force and effect.
The Main User may cancel your Shakespeare Curriculum account with immediate effect within the Shakespeare Curriculum platform.
We reserve the right to cancel and delete your account if you haven't accessed the Service for more than six consecutive months. We will provide prior notice by email to the Main User before we do so.
When an account is terminated or cancelled, the account and any content left behind in the account will be made inaccessible. If Participating Schools stops using the platform, we will store participating school data in our database system(s) for a maximum of seven years after your last engagement with us. At that point, your data will be deleted, no longer processed, and you will cease to receive communications from us, unless there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep such information until resolution.
Data Processing
Each party undertakes to comply with its obligations under relevant applicable data protection laws, principles, and agreements.
To the extent that personal data is processed by us on your behalf when you use the Service, you acknowledge that we are a data processor, and the Participating School is a data controller. The terms of the Data Processing Agreement shall apply to all Participating School Data that we process on your behalf.
Any information that you provide to us during signup or information provided when ordering the Service (such as your email address) will be used by us in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy.
If a third party alleges infringement of its data protection rights, we shall be obliged to take measures necessary to prevent the infringement of a third party’s rights from continuing.
Availability & Support
We will endeavour to make the Website and Service available to the Participating School and Users 24 x 7, however we shall not be liable if for any reason the Website or Service is unavailable at any time or for any period. Any essential maintenance to the Website will be communicated in advance when possible.
We may suspend access to your account temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance, or repair or due to a Force Majeure Event (defined below).
For technical support please contact schools.curriculum@rsc.org.uk with full and accurate details of all errors and/or bugs so that we may investigate. Technical support will only be provided for bugs or errors that the support team are able to reproduce. You acknowledge that we provide no warranty that all or any bugs or errors will be corrected.
Intellectual Property Rights
All intellectual property rights and title to the Service and materials provided by the RSC on the Website shall remain owned by us and no interest or ownership in the Service or Website is transferred to the Participating School.
No part of the Website or Service may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without our prior written permission.
When using the Service, Participating Schools are encouraged to provide us with their feedback, suggestions, or ideas for changes to the Service (“Feedback”). The Participating School assigns to us all rights, title, and interest in any Feedback. If for any reason such assignment is ineffective, the Participating School shall grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, worldwide right and licence to use, reproduce, disclose, sub-licence, distribute, modify, and exploit such feedback without restriction.
We may take and maintain technical precautions to protect the Service and Website from improper or unauthorised use, distribution or copying.
Acceptable Conduct
You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from the Website and/or the Service any material:
(i) that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience;
(ii) for which you have not obtained all necessary licences, consents, and/or approvals; this includes and is not limited to any reuse of content for machine learning or AI training, bulk downloading or automated access or sharing RSC content or IP beyond classroom use;
(iii) which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in any country in the world; or
(iv) which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
You must not use the Website or the Service:
(i) in any way that breaches any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation;
(iii) in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
(iii) for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way; or
(iv) to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
We shall fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of the above rules on acceptable conduct.
Disclaimer & Warranties
The material on the Website and the Service is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties, or other terms of any kind. While we endeavour to ensure that the information provided on the Website and the information provided in connection with the Service is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy and completeness of such material. We may make changes to the material on the Website or to the Service at any time without notice. The material on the Website may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such material.
You warrant and represent that:
(i) you have authority to enter into this agreement and to perform your obligations under these Terms and Conditions of Use;
(ii) the execution and performance of your obligations under these Terms and Conditions of Use does not violate or conflict with the terms of any other agreement to which you are a party and is in accordance with any applicable laws;
(iii) you shall respect all applicable laws and regulations, governmental orders, and court orders, which relate to use of the Service, or Website, and these Terms and Conditions of Use; and
(iv) you rightfully own the necessary user rights, copyrights and ancillary copyrights and permits required for you to fulfil your obligations under these Terms and Conditions of Use.
Except as expressly stated in these Terms and Conditions of Use, all warranties, and conditions, whether express or implied by statute, common law or otherwise (including but not limited to satisfactory quality and fitness for purpose), are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. No warranty is made regarding the results of usage of the Service or Website or that the functionality of the Service or Website will meet your requirements or that the Service or Website will operate uninterrupted or error free.
Limitation Of Liability
We do not exclude or limit our liability to you for fraud, death or personal injury caused by any negligent act, omission, or wilful misconduct by us in connection with the provision of the Website or Service, or any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
In no event shall we be liable to you whether arising under these Terms and Conditions of Use or in tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty), misrepresentation or however arising, for any indirect or consequential loss or damage which shall include but not be limited to pure economic loss, losses incurred by any client of yours or other third party, loss of profits (whether categorised as direct or indirect loss), losses arising from business interruption, loss of business revenue, goodwill or anticipated savings, losses whether or not occurring in the normal course of business, wasted management or staff time, loss or corruption of data, or inability to use or the results of use of the Website or Service, any websites linked to the Website or the material on such websites.
You acknowledge and agree our total liability to you (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) under or in connection with the provision of the Website or Service under these Terms and Conditions of Use including any claim for indemnity or contribution.
The Participating School shall defend, indemnify, and hold us and our employees, sub-contractors, or agents harmless from and against any costs, losses, liabilities, and expenses, including reasonable legal costs arising from any claim relating to or resulting directly or indirectly from:
(i) any claimed infringement by the Participating School, User or third party of any intellectual property rights with respect to use of the Website or Service outside of the scope of these Terms and Conditions of Use;
(ii) use by us of any Participating School Data or Participating School or User provided item;
(iii) any access to or use of the Website or Service by a User, Client or a third party in breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use; or
(iv) breaches of data protection law or regulations resulting from the us processing data on behalf of and in accordance with the instructions of the Participating School or User.
Confidentiality
Each party may use the confidential information of the other party only for the purposes of these Terms and Conditions of Use and must keep confidential all confidential information of the other party except to the extent (if any) the recipient of any confidential information is required by law to disclose the confidential information.
Each party may disclose the confidential information of the other party to those of its employees and agents who have a need to know the confidential information for the purposes of these Terms and Conditions of Use but only if the employee or agent executes a confidentiality undertaking in a form approved by the other party.
The obligations of confidentiality under these Terms and Conditions of Use do not extend to information that:
(i)was rightfully in the possession of the receiving party before the commencement of these Terms and Conditions of Use;
(ii)is or becomes public knowledge (otherwise than as a result of a breach of these Terms and Conditions of Use; or
(iii)is required by law to be disclosed.
Assignment
You may not transfer, assign, charge or otherwise dispose of these Terms and Conditions of Use or any of your rights or obligations arising hereunder, without our prior written consent.
We may transfer, assign, charge, sub-contract or otherwise dispose of these Terms and Conditions of Use, or any of our rights or obligations arising hereunder, at any time.
Communicating Between Us
We will communicate with you in English only.
All notices from you must be given to us by email at schools.curriculum@rsc.org.uk. Unless explicitly stated otherwise in these Terms and Conditions of Use we shall give all notices to you by email to the email address of the Main User. Notices shall be deemed received and properly served 24 hours after an e-mail is sent.
Changes
We maintain the right to change these Terms and Conditions of Use and Shakespeare Curriculum’s Privacy Policy at any time, at our sole discretion upon giving you reasonable notice of any material change. Any changes will become effective on the date stated in such notice. If you or any User accesses or uses the Service after the date stated in any notice, this will constitute the Participating School ’s acceptance of any changes. If you do not accept the changes, you should cancel your account before the date stated in the notice and stop using the Service.
New features in the Service, including new tools and resources, will be subject to these Terms and Conditions of Use.
Force Majeure
We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations caused by events outside our reasonable control (a “Force Majeure Event”).
A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission, or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes but is not limited to:
(i) strikes, lockouts or other industrial action;
(ii) civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war;
(iii) fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster;
(iv) impossibility of the use of public or private telecommunications networks; or
(v) the acts, decrees, legislation, regulations, or restrictions of any government.
Our performance of our obligations shall be deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to an end or to find a solution by which our obligations under these Terms and Conditions of Use may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.
Miscellaneous
Should a provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use be invalid or become invalid then the legal effect of the other provisions shall be unaffected. A valid provision is deemed to have been agreed which comes closest to what the parties intended commercially and shall replace the invalid provision. The same shall apply to any omissions.
These Terms and Conditions of Use, together with all documents referred to in them constitute the whole agreement and understanding between the parties and supersedes all prior agreements, representations, negotiations, and discussions between the parties relating to the subject matter thereof.
Nothing contained in these Terms and Conditions of Use is intended to be enforceable pursuant to the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or any other similar law in any jurisdiction.
Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These Terms and Conditions of Use shall be governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction for the settlement of all disputes arising under these Terms and Conditions of Use.
Last Updated: 17 Nov 2025